Cincinnati Art Museum collection
Born 1976, Nara Prefecture, Japan
TSUJIMURA KAI is the second son of one of the most gifted potters active in Japan today, Tsujimura Shirō. Despite his relative youth, Kai has inherited from his father a great facility with the wheel and a magician’s touch in his ash-glazing, resulting from his command of the process of wood-burning firings. Influenced by Momoyama era aesthetics, he creates powerful functional vessels that are both dramatic and sensual. Unlike most of his contemporaries, who closely control the firing process, Kai delights in the unexpected and incorporates chance into his creative process. His oeuvre includes, in addition to ash-glazed vessels, ceramics with translucent glaze (egarasu) as well as white slip glaze (kohiki).
Shigaraki vessel
2008
19 x 17 x 16 in.
Inv# 6624
SOLD
Large vessel with tapered base
2008
Stoneware with natural ash glaze
20 1/2 x 17 1/4 x 17 in.
Inv# 5705
SOLD
Large vessel with tapered base and natural ash glaze
2008
Stoneware with natural ash glaze
20 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
Inv# 5707
SOLD
Vessel with tapered base and natural ash glaze in gray and light green tones
2008
Stoneware with natural ash glaze
18 x 13 1/2 in.
Inv# 5724
SOLD
Small rounded vessel with green natural ash glaze
2008
Stoneware with natural ash glaze
7 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.
SOLD
Vessel with crane-neck and green natural ash glaze
2008
Stoneware with natural ash glaze
12 1/2 x 7 in.
Inv# 5719
SOLD
Shigaraki wide-mouth vase fired with natural ash glaze
2006
Stoneware with natural ash glaze
21 3/4 x 17 x 17 1/2 in.
SOLD
